The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age

2018
1h 53m
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Documentary

"Gilded is not golden"

Overview

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.

Status: Released

Language: EN

Production Information

Production Companies
GBH PBS American Experience
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

american experience

Quick Facts

Release Date February 6, 2018
Status Released
Language EN
Website Visit Site

Cast

Oliver Platt
Oliver Platt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Key Crew

Mark Samels
Executive Producer
Helen Ryan Dobrowski
Producer
Mark Zwonitzer
Writer
Sarah Colt
Producer
Sarah Colt
Director